USCIS has several immigration relief measures that may be available to Nepali nationals who are affected by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake. The same may apply to other countries such as Syria, Iraq, Libya among others.

Kamal Nawash, a prominent Washington D.C. attorney, isn't surprised when he hears about such cases. "There's a fear out there that something could happen and here you have this individual who supposedly has followers out there. It's not unreasonable for the U.S. Government to be asking questions and to be worried."

Most Gay couples who seek a divoce are not asking a judge to grant them any property or alimony since they've already settled those issues. They just want to get an order of dissolution. And the couples have good reasons for wanting the court order. Even if they have resolved their financial affairs, they need to get a divorce so they can be free of future liabilities, and so they will be able to marry, or legally partner with, their new romantic interest.

Accordingly, the Department of Homeland Security will not begin accepting requests for the expansion of DACA tomorrow, February 18, as originally planned. Until further notice, we will also suspend the plan to accept requests for DAPA.

Expanding the population eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to people of any current age who entered the United States before the age of 16 and lived in the United States continuously since January 1, 2010, and extending the period of DACA and work authorization from two years to three years. USCIS will begin accepting requests for expanded DACA on February 18, 2015

On November 20, 2014, the President announced a series of executive actions to crack down on illegal immigration at the border, prioritize deporting felons not families, and require certain undocumented immigrants to pass a criminal background check and pay taxes in order to temporarily stay in the U.S. without fear of deportation.

Since 1948, the United States has declined to recognize any country as having sovereignty over the holy city of Jerusalem. But in 2002, Congress passed a law that instructed the Secretary of State, upon request, to list the birthplace of a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem as "Israel" on his passport. http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/zivotofsky-v-kerry/

The Iraqi Special Immigrant Visa Program, which expired at the
end of the fiscal year, received an unlikely lifeline Wednesday
night as the House of Representatives approved a bill to extend it
temporarily, matching a similar initiative the Senate pushed
through Monday.

Landlord and tenant law in Washington D.C. provides tenants with
some of the most friendly laws in the United States. A tenant with
a competent lawyer may prevent the mightiest landlord from evicting
him from his business or home.

Beginning March 4, certain immigrant visa applicants who are the
spouses, children and parents of U.S. citizens (immediate
relatives), and have been unlawfully present in the United States,
can start applying for provisional unlawful presence waivers
through a new process.

The final rule establishes a process that allows certain
individuals to apply for a provisional unlawful presence waiver
before they depart the United States to attend immigrant visa
interviews in their countries of origin.

"As a Palestinian-born American, you are considered to be
Palestinian in the State of Israel regardless of your American
citizenship and therefore you cannot use this airport. You have to
go back to the United States."

Secretary of Homeland Security announced the posting of a final rule in the Federal Register that reduces the time U.S. citizens are separated from their immediate relatives (spouse, children and parents),

A lead attorney for Miski, Kamal Nawash of the Nawash Law Office
in Washington, said today that he thought Walton's ruling set
important precedent for cybersquatting cases in the future. "The
facts of the case make a difference," he said. "Just because
someone uses a domain name that happens to be similar to your name
or appears to give the impression they are you, it doesn't mean
it's illegal."

The release of the new form and instructions to allow
individuals to request consideration of deferred action for
childhood arrivals from USCIS marks an important step in our
implementation of this new process,"

Effective immediately, certain young people who were brought to
the United States through no fault of their own as young children
and meet several key criteria will be considered for relief from
removal from the country or entered into removal proceedings. Those
who demonstrate that they meet the criteria will be eligible to
receive deferred action for a period of two years, subject to
renewal.

No individual should receive deferred action under this
memorandum unless they first pass a background check and requests
for relief pursuant to this memorandum are to be decided on a case
by case basis.

Last week, President Obama
signed into law H.R. 3992, bipartisan legislation introduced by
Rep. Howard Berman (CA28), which would further open America to
direct investment by Israeli investors, provided Israel
reciprocates with similar opportunities for American investors. The
law adds Israel to a list of 80 countries whose citizens are
eligible for E-2 investor visas.

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Regardless of what the embassy wants, Miski "feels it's a
principle issue for him, for the most part," said Miski's attorney,
Kamal Nawash of the Nawash Law Office in Washington. "He feels he
owns [the domain names], he believes under the law he's entitled to
them, and he doesn't believe that the Libyan embassy or anybody
else can come and take them away from him."

A jury held members of a Baptist Church liable for millions of dollars in damages for picketing near a soldier's funeral service. The picket signs reflected thechurch's view that the United States is overly tolerant of sin and that God kills American soldiers as punishment.

Some 1.3 million illegal immigrants have left the United States since Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform in the summer of 2007. If the trend continues, according to a new study, the nation's illegal population will drop by half in the next five years.

Federal law enforcement agencies have increased criminal prosecutions of immigration violators to record levels, in part by filing minor charges against virtually every person caught illegally crossing some stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border, according to new U.S. data.

After his wife of more than two decades filed for divorce, Irfan Aleem went to the Pakistani Embassy where he executed a written document that asserted he was divorcing his wife. He performed "talaq," exercising a provision of Islamic religious law that allows husbands to divorce their wives by declaring "I divorce thee" three times.

State lawmakers have already proposed more than 350 immigration-related bills in the first two months of this year. States with the largest number of proposals include California, Virginia, South Carolina, Arizona and Rhode Island.

Michael A. Maggio, 60, a well-known immigration lawyer in Washington whose Dupont Circle law firm has one of the area's biggest immigration practices, died Feb. 10 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at his Washington home.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) advises customers that processing of fee payments and entry of cases into our tracking system remains behind schedule due to the tremendous increase in the number of applications filed.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) advises customers that, due to a tremendous increase in the number of applications filed, processing of fee payments and entry of cases into our tracking system is behind schedule.